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Monday, May 23, 2011

IPv6: Test your connectivity on a remote computer via your browser.

While test-ipv6.com and ipv6-test.com are great sites for testing IPv6 connectivity on your personal computer, they rely heavily on javascript code in their tests and therefore cannot be used with w3m.

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Monday, February 21, 2011

How to disable random IPv6 addresses on Windows Seven / Vista (no Privacy Extensions anymore!)

There is a lot of information about this "issue" on the web, but the following method is the only one actually effective in my case. This is very useful for setting up DNS AAAA and PTR records for IPv6 auto-configured hosts.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

UTBM: Autumn 2010 semester [DONE]

Heck. It's done. Not perfect, not catastrophic: this semester has just ended.

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Saturday, January 1, 2011

s/2010/2011/

At this very moment I really wish I had enough will to write a lengthy article on how bad was this year, especially the second semester.

But I won't because it is not entertaining nor interesting for anyone. Moreover, I am concerned with important matters right now. So I will get this straight :

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Lv0.in is up!

Yeah! On schedule!

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Friday, November 26, 2010

What is worse?

I have one question: what is worse than an insalubrious apartment?

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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Planned downtime for lv0.in

lv0.in network infrastructure will be down from Tue Nov 23 10:00:00 CET 2010 to an unknown date (maybe after December 15)...

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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Enabling SNMP on SLM2008 Cisco Small Business Switch

Cisco SLM 2008 is a very efficient layer 2 manageable gigabit ethernet switch, with decent pricing and a large range of features: VLAN, (R)STP, LACP and static link aggregation, 802.1X Authentication, IGMP Snooping, you name it. Even the integrated web interface is quite well designed and not buggy.

But one (native) feature is lacking when you want to monitor per-port network traffic : SNMP.

Here is how to enable and basically configure SNMP on SLM2008 switches.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

DNS recursive attacks, DoS and DDoS : iptables -m recent is your friend

Got plenty of query (cache) 'isc.org/ANY/IN' denied in your bind9 logs? Like about 1 query per second from several IPs? Want to tell them to get lost? This entry may interest you then.

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Saturday, May 1, 2010

From 127.0.0.1: Time to live (almost) exceeded

It has been quite some time since I wrote something here, certainly due to laziness, or maybe just because this whole blog thing started to sound like "Meh".

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